Dublin Region Innovation Network & Open Data Portal; Environment dubmeet

Pauline Riordan

Dublin City Council

Supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin Region

Dublin Region open data portal and innovation network


Dublin Region

Capitalise on growing reputation as a key tech hub

4 municipal authorities

1.27 million in Greater Dublin Area

Economic driver

European and international gateway


Global city challenges

Collaborate regionally to find solutions

•Local Government

•Business

•Universities

•State


Smart city partners

Currently developing Smart City vision & processes

•IBM Research

•Intel

•Siemens

•GlenDimplex

•Gowex

•Universities

•Agencies

•Local Authorities

Source: IBM Research

Open DataResearch EnterpriseDigitalTransport Energy Water


Create level playing field

300+ datasets

Operational, Spatial,

Research, Sensor and

monitoring

16 organisations

18 research datasets

6 dynamic data sets

•Real time traffic, public

transport &parking

•Dynamic planning

information &Customer

interactions

Open Data can be freely used, reused and redistributed….

published in a machine readable format


Platform to drive innovation

PublicLocal Authorities lead data release

AcademicNUIM sets standards

and manages network

Commercial

IBM provides technology platform

Research Data

Licensed , commercial &

Large data streams

Open Data

Open Data

Open Data

16 Data Providers:

•Local Authorities

•Government Depts

•University

•Central Statistics Office

•Ordnance Survey

•Property Regulatory Authority

•National Transport Authority

•Fixyourstreet.ie

•Business Improvement District

Membership: entrepreneurs, researchers, developers, public bodies, data

providers, small medium enterprises and multinational organisations.


Innovation network events

Connect people with ideas to people with problems

Dubmeets… Planning, Technical, Spatial, Visualisation, Open

Innovation, Public Sector data, Public Transport ,Linked Data, Tourism,

Social enterprise, Environment……

• 800 attendees

• Showcase for

developers

• Feedback loop

between data

users and data

providers


Demand driven

+120 data requestsHigh interestTransport, planning, environment, mapping

Unexpected

Fire brigade, school wardens, Fats, Oils & Grease, Electrical list


Achievements

• Internationally recognised

innovation network

• 75,000 unique visits/year

• Reinforce Dublin as tech

sector location

• Legal agreements in place

• Low cost €73,212 in 2013

with one full time staff

Top 15 Cities : Dublin, London, Cork, Galway, Haifa, Athens, Limerick, Belfast,

Glasgow, San Jose, New Delhi, Toronto, Kronberg, New York, Singapore


Challenges

•Culture change

•Licensing & authorisation for

outsourced services

•Security & data protection

•New business model

•Build profile and systemise regionally

WITH BIG DATA COMES

BIG RESPONSIBILITY

Co-ordinate our data and knowledge management


Prototype city

Position Dublin as leader in developing urban solutions

Source: Plotspotz (NDRC Open data challenge)

Commercialisation

Data suppliers

Test bed / procurement

Formal structure for

engaging

Clear prototyping process


From static to dynamic data

Data carries health warning?

Source: Intel City Sensing and City Watch programmesSource: Dublinked ‘monitoring’ data


Networked city

How do we respond to connected citizens in real time?

>1,000 traffic volumes, air &

noise pollution sensors

1,200 fixed sensors real time

environmental data

Citizen reporting fix your street

Smart meters and smart grid roll

out of water, energy,

e-car infrastructures

Free public wifi hotspots

Source: fixyourstreet.ie Fault Reporting


Linking front end and back office

Legacy systems, working across silos, resource constraints

Source: IWB ‘Our Dublin’ project

George Brown College Toronto, Source: Traffic Asset Management system to collect Roads & Traffic data


Predictive transport systems

Data analytics to forecast emergent behaviour

Anomaly Detected: Delayed buses, congested roads

Detection to Diagnosis

IBM Research

Source: Dublin City Traffic Control Centre

Real time traffic data: Multi-modal models to predict bottlenecks


Predictive weather modelling

Data analytics to forecast emergent behaviour

Source: IBM Research

Water & weather data: predict flooding events

Source: Dublin LIDAR l

Licensed to Ordance Survey

Platform for information sharing

Insight Project: traffic, bus, CCTV, weather & twitter data for emergency response

Real time traffic data to Dublinked via API (Opensky)

Journey Times across the city

Source: TRIPS visualisation Dublinked

Used research zone to test large datastreams



New digital services

38+ digital products and services

New apps:

• planning information

• journey planners

• parking apps

• events & facilities

Hittheroad.ie


Access to subject expertise

Making our assets available to test new systems

Noise Maps & 3-D Model of Dublin City

Source: Traffic Noise & Air Quality Unit

Pluvial rainfall mapping

Source: Dublin City Council FloodResilienCity


Exploit hidden potential

Cars as technology platforms for delivery of services

Collaborative consumption model of services

Information

Monitoring

Security

Work Offloading

Element Detection

Localization and tracking

of pedestrians

Collaborative Parking

Social Signal FilteringCommunities & Behaviours

Parking data:

Potential of parking cars as sensors

or wifi replicators?

http://www.dsps.ie/zones_map.pdf


Find the valueBecome more proactive- what do we

want?

Focus on regional challenges

Run competitions for innovative solutions

Source: NDRC Open data challenge

Find challenges people care about and publish data

Source: Fingal Open Data

http://data.fingal.ie/Apps4Fingal/


Meet user needs

User friendly interface lets people find the story in the data

Surface search, query, mapping &

visualising functions

Source: SPUD Technology for exploring urban information


Gov2Gov and beyond

Build big picture of region; public & private


Enabling infrastructure for smart city

Platform for information sharing and engagement

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